Word for Wednesday – text tutorial
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Hello and happy Wednesday. Brittney here on “Words for Wednesday”.
I have had a couple people ask me how I make my text wrap around my embellishments, like in this LO for example.
While there are several ways I do it, depending on the shape, I’ll show you the quick & dirty way. Hopefully you’ll learn something new and have a new way to manipulate your words and journaling on your LOs.
(These steps are for Photoshop. I’m not an Elements user so I’m not sure if you can do this same thing in Elements. Someone who uses Elements, let me know in the comments section!!)
Ok – Step 1: Select your Polygonal Lasso Tool.
Step 2: Click, click, click out a shape that will evenutally be the shape of your text box. HELPFUL HINT: on the straight edges – in my case the top, bottom, and right side, make sure you get your bars perfectly straight or the text will do wonky things. The more clicks you make, the smoother the text box will be, but it doesn’t have to be a perfect curve, the text will still look great.
Step 3: With your selection made (and those marching ants still marching), on your palettes menu, next to the layers you’ll find a tab named “Paths”. Click it!
Step 4: On the far right side of the pallette box there is a little drop down menu marked by three lines and little triangle. Click this drop down menu and select “Make Work Path”. Just click ok on the next box that pops up.
Step 5: Now your selection has been turned into a path, which will look like this. If you select your type tool and hover it inside the box you’ll see the text tool get a little dotted ring around it. I couldn’t get a screen shot of this, so I did my best to give you an idea of what it will look like. When the text tool has the dotted ring around it, that means it will type within this path. If you hover your curser over the edge of the path your text tool will get a wavy line through it. If you click while you have the wavy line through it, your text will go AROUND the path’s edges. But for this one, we want to type inside the path/box so click when you have the dotted circle text icon.
Step 6: Just type your journaling now and format it however you like.
And that’s it. The little path lines will go away if you click on another layer. Pretty simple.
Like I said, there are many other ways to do custom text paths, but this is a really easy method.
Hope this all made sense. Feel free to PM me if it didn’t!!
Make your words matter!!
xoxo
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